Dark and Shallow Lies

by Ginny Myers Sain

In numerology, eleven can be the number of power and wisdom. But it’s also the number of imperfection. It’s chaos and disorder. A world in disarray. The undoing of the ten. Everything out of balance.

“Knowing is hard,” he says, “but it’s a thing you can survive. The not knowing will kill you in the end. It’s the secrets that fester.”

It hits me hard how every single one of us—everyone in the whole wide world—is walking around with missing pieces.